Beyonce Gets A Blonde Pixie Haircut; World Explodes

She's a grown woman and she can chop however she wants.

Look: There's things happening all over the world, great accomplishments and important milestones and profound joys and extraordinary tragedies and a whole spectrum of human experience that's vast and varied and complex.

And yet, when I saw Beyonce's haircut — well, all of a sudden, nothing else mattered. I gasped audibly. I peered in close to my computer screen. I was inundated with feeling. I took several seats.

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Yes, leave it to Beyonce — who scientists have frequently described as "a grown woman who can do whatever she wants" — to blindside everyone by taking her style evolution to the next level by getting a cropped blonde pixie haircut, then nonchalantly posting pictures of it to Instagram. In three photos uploaded late last night, Beyonce studies her reflection appraisingly in the mirror, working her angles. It's bold, it's sophisticated, and most importantly, it looks like King Bey is feeling her damn self.

But what happens to Bey's long and storied career in hair-flipping? Well, it's not like it's permanent — there are wigs and weaves (in fairness, Beyonce has snatched both from the competition countless times over the course of her career) — and given that the siren just wrapped the summer leg of her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, she has a little bit of freedom.

So much for growing out those pixies: Beyonce just injected a whole lot of new life into the trend. Maybe she just wanted to feel what it would be like if she were a boy. (Sorry.)